 So, welcome back. We will pick up from where we stopped. So, we talked about the importance of prophetic ministry. We also said that there are three levels of prophetic ministry that we observe as far as the scriptures are concerned. But the beautiful part is that every believer can be prophetic. We can use what we hear from God in whatever God has called us to do. So, I saw a question from Divya here in the chat where she says, what is the spirit of prophecy referred to in Revelation 19 and verse 10? Worship God for it is the spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus. So, Divya, the spirit of prophecy as we've already said from 1 Corinthians chapter 12 that prophecy is a gift of the Holy Spirit. So, it's part of the Holy Spirit. So, the Holy Spirit, if he is called as the spirit of prophecy, it would mean the same thing, that he carries that ability to bring revelation. Okay? And in this particular verse, the best testimony to Jesus, so revelation about Christ, the Holy Spirit is bringing revelation about Christ. Now, we know that that's one of the responsibilities of the Holy Spirit to bring revelation, to introduce Christ, to glorify Christ. Okay? So, that's how we would understand it. Would that be all right? Okay. Wonderful. Okay. So, then let's go ahead. We said so far that the prophetic ministry is very, it's an incredible blessing. So, here in our notes, we also have a testimony which pastors included from his own life and he talks about how there was a phase when he was in the US where many things were happening and he, you know, he was also many things were happening and it was a very difficult time in his life. And during this one phase, he had the opportunity to go for a spiritual skills course where they had called for a certain prophet to also come and minister in some of the session. So, about the prophet, he did not know what pastor, you know, he did not know what pastor was going for. He went pastor, not shared it with anyone. But when he came, then he began to pray over pastor. Apparently, he started speaking the same things which were in pastor's heart. So, this is what, you know, prophecy looks like. So, he shared this testimony and how that prophetic ministry of that individual was such a blessing to him, you know, he writes about how he did one of the most significant prophecies that he has ever received. And I'm sure, you know, each one of us, we may have our own experiences and, you know, it really thrills us as to how God can speak way ahead of time and reveal his purposes, reveal his plans, even reveal some of the gifts and graces which he has put on people's lives, reveal, you know, some of the opportunities that we are going to walk into. So, so encouraging. And as we saw, one of the key things that God wants to do through the simple gift of prophecy is to edify, to exalt, to comfort his children. So, let's learn, you know, more and more about how God has chosen to share, you know, whatever he desires through the prophetic word. Now, when we look at the word of God, it's very interesting to note that the very first person who is referred to as a prophet is Abraham. So, Genesis 20 verse 7, this is the incident where, you know, there is this king called Abimelech who comes and he is, you know, he wants to take Abraham's wife. And so, because of this evil intention of the king, you know, God's wrath comes upon Abimelech and, you know, his people. And so, you know, the wombs of the women are shot, the cattle are shot, all that. So, when Abimelech is going through this, God tells Abimelech when he wants to repent, God tells him in Genesis 20 verse 7 about Abraham, he says, he is a prophet and he will pray for you and you shall live. So, few things for us to understand here is Abraham. For us, when we say prophet, immediately we get the image, one person, maybe they are, you know, broad-shouldered and they have a certain kind of style and, you know, hairstyle and everything. And immediately this dust as the Lord, you know, and that's a prophet for us. But look at this, God tells Abimelech, Abraham is a prophet and he will do what? He won't prophesy to you, he will pray for you. Okay, so, we don't ever read about Abraham saying dust as the Lord. So, how is Abraham a prophet? You see, Abraham walked with the revelation of the purposes of God. You know, Abraham is called as the friend of God. Look at the life that he lived. It's not the word that he spoke or, you know, in terms of dust as the Lord. But it's more of Abraham was hearing from God, walking with God, listening to God, understanding the divine purposes. Okay, come on, let me walk with God. This is what God wants to do. This is what God wants from my life. This is the promise of God over my generation. So, Abraham is prophetic because he heard from God. His life was prophetic and no wonder God said Abraham is a prophet. Abimelech, Abraham is a prophet. He will pray for you and you shall live. Now, here is another beautiful thing that we can understand. So, Abraham lived with revelation which made him a prophetic individual. Abraham will pray for you. So, it also shows us that Abraham was in that place of prayer. He was a man of prayer. No wonder God had confidence and said, okay, let this man pray for you. You will live. Abraham, even later on, we see Genesis 18, we see when Sodom and Gomorrah, God had intended for these cities to be destroyed because of sin. You know, he says it was 17, Genesis 18 and it was 17. And the Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham what I am going to do, what I am doing. So, God wanted to reveal to Abraham because he's also, you would see in that passage that Abraham starts to function like a prophetic intercessor. He starts to talk to God and say, God, if there are so many righteous people, will you spare the land? If there are so many righteous people, will you spare? What is he actually doing? He heard that Sodom and Gomorrah are going to be destroyed but now he is interceding for that sinful city. So, he's a prophetic intercessor. Abraham was a man of prayer and Abraham is an intercessor. So, what is the connection? You see, we can have prayer and intercession without prophecy, which means, okay, today, my prayer list says I have to pray for, you know, I have to pray for the country. Today, my prayer list says I have to pray for my health. Okay, I'll go ahead and pray. But it's like, I'm not necessarily asking God what should I pray for. So, there's no prophetic hearing, no listening from God but there's still prayer and intercession. So, we can have prayer and intercession without prophecy but here's the deal. Prophecy will not flow without prayer and intercession. You see, so one way is possible, prayer and intercession but not prophetic. But prophetic without prayer and intercession, no way. If we have to move in the prophetic, flow in the prophetic, look at the life of Abraham, God said he's a prophet. We see him interceding. He is a man of prayer, a man who spoke to God, a man who interacted with God. So, the prophetic is very strongly connected to prayer. So, unless we are prayerful people, we cannot expect the prophetic to flow freely through our lives. Okay, so that's what we learned from Abraham. Abraham had a prophetic life, point one. Point two, Abraham was a man of prayer and so we know that there is a very strong connection of the prophetic with prayer and intercession. So, I hope you all are doing okay, so far? All fine? All good? Yes. Wonderful. Great. Let's move forward. All right. So now, let's begin to look at what are the other things that we can pick up about prophecy, prophet, prophetic ministry, we have Moses and Aaron, who were sent as representatives of the Israelites to Pharaoh and they had to lead them. They had to lead them out. So, when we read about Moses and Aaron, one of the things that we notice is there is this Hebrew word called Nabi, Nabi which is used. So, Exodus seven was one. A God says, See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh and Aaron, your brother shall be your prophet. So, Moses came up with all his excuses. He said, No, I can't talk God. I'm not fluent because okay, fine. Don't worry, Moses. I will send Aaron as the spokesperson. Now for that spokesperson, the term Hebrew term which is used is Nabi. Aaron, your brother shall be your prophet. Okay, so that is Nabi and this word Nabi is used 309 times in the Old Testament. So, Nabi simply means one who speaks for another. Okay, so here in India, I think about maybe three decades ago, many of us would read your parents and grandparents talk about who I ought to post. Nowadays, you know, everything's email, WhatsApp, immediate communication is happening. So, very rare for people to write those post letters to one another. But many decades ago, that was the case and we would have these post men, post women, you know, in the khaki clothes coming on the cycle and it's something like that. So, somebody is delivering a message that is prophet. Okay, even today when we prophesy, who are we? We are like those people who deliver the message. And what did God tell Moses? Moses, look, I will send you Aaron. He will be your prophet or he will be Nabi or he will be the one who speaks on your behalf. He is so a Nabi or a prophet is nothing but another person's mouthpiece. In this case, mouthpiece speaking. So, what do we do when we prophesy? I am just a mouthpiece. He speaks. God speaks. I'm here to deliver the message and I have to do my best to deliver the message in a way that God is honored, people are blessed. So, that is how we see God work. A prophet or Nabi is nothing but a spokesperson or a mouthpiece. So, that we have understood. Now, let's go on with these Hebrew words and see what else we can gain from this word prophet, you know, wherever it's there. So, going back to or going forward into the times of Samuel, Samuel, the great prophet and you know, Samuel had a lot of other prophets who were training under him in 1 Chronicles 29-29. It says, Now the acts of King David first and last, indeed they are written in the book of Samuel, the seer. You see another word is introduced here, Hebrew word. Okay, but these are all related. We saw the word prophet Nabi. Now, let's see what are these words? Samuel the seer in Hebrew it is Roe, Roe, Roe, Roe, Roe, Roe. In the book of Nathan, the prophet. See interchangeable Nabi, again Nabi. So, Samuel the seer, we know that Samuel was a prophet but Samuel is termed as the seer and Nathan the prophet Nabi. Okay, let's move on. And in the book of Gad the seer, Jose. So, there are three different terms that are used to describe men of God who spoke the message, who were the mouthpiece of God. Why? Because it's just explaining to us the process of receiving the message. All of them receive the message but seemingly in a different way. So, what is this? What is the process? Samuel the seer, Gad the seer, Roe, Jose, Hebrew words. They are telling us that these men had the experience of visualization or seeing something. What could they have seen? They could have seen visions, they could have gazed into the spiritual realm, they could have had spiritual revelations, they could have seen a person. We don't know. There are things they saw, their spiritual man saw and to describe the process, the prophetic process which Samuel and Gad had, they are called as seers. They are prophets but what is their process? Visualization. So, we are understanding more about the prophetic. So, the message from God can be received in the form of visuals. And we see these same words repeated in many other places. So, it tells us that there were a lot of people, prophets who actually saw something. So, that is one of the ways in which God releases the message visually. See, even Amos when God was speaking to Amos, Amos chapter 7 verses 14 and 15, Amos says, I was no prophet. He says, Nabi, I was no prophet nor was I a son of a prophet. But I was a sheep breeder and a tender of sycamore fruit. Then the Lord took me as I followed the flock and the Lord said to me, go prophesy to my people Israel. So, so far we saw Samuel, Gad, they are people who saw. Now, when you read other passages of Amos, God, there were times when God said, Amos, what do you see? I see a basket of summer fruit. Amos says, I forget which passage that was. But even Amos saw. So, God told him, you see and you interpret what I am showing you. But in this case, in the verse that I just read, Amos, the terms that I use there, prophet, prophet, Nabi, Nabi. What is the meaning? So, we saw one process. One process is the visualization process. Now, why is it that there are some other prophets who are called as Nabi? Everyone must be a seer then, isn't it? Why some are specifically called as Nabi? Well, that term Nabi, we saw that it is a mouthpiece of God. But as you look at the meaning, that Naba is also referring to prophecy. And the understanding which we gain from that word Naba is inspiration. So, here's the second process through which I can hear from God. First one, visualization. So, there were people who saw images and they were able to share a message from God. Now, here are the second kind Nabi who were inspired. Inspired is nothing but bubble up. Or you would say flow forth. So, as one begins to speak, words are coming. Words are coming. You don't know where they're coming from. You see, they're just bubbling up from inside. There's no, I'm not seeing anything, but I'm able to deliver a message which is not even in my mind. So, that is called as the Naba prophecy, that kind of prophecy. So, here is the second way in which people prophesied. They were inspired. They may not have seen any visuals. So, whenever inspired, what happened? They spoke words. When they were inspired, they spoke sentences. When they were inspired, they spoke phrases. So, a lot of things came out of prophets just like that. It's just bubbling up from within them. So, this is the manner in which we see God working through men and women of God. And we know that in the Old Testament, there were prophets. We will study about it later as well. They were selected people upon whom that prophetic anointing would come. And they would speak the word of God. And even people, they also understood that. So, there were times when people said, Hey, come. Let's go to the seer. Remember the time when Samuel lost his donkeys? What did he decide to do? Let's go to the seer. Maybe God will show the seer where the donkeys are. And so, God's spirit came upon men and women and they used to prophesy in all these ways. Now, here is something more that we want to add. We said that there are two processes of generally that we notice of the way the word comes to us. But after having understood this, we should not box God up and say, Hey, I'm a seer. So, and so is a inspired man, Nabi. Okay, they only bubble up with words. What if, you know, I am generally a seer, but one day I'm praying for someone and I'm not seeing anything, but words are coming up. You see, we must let God work in any way he wants. We shouldn't get stuck in, Hey, this is the only way in which God will speak. So whenever we try to box God up and his process, see understanding his process is not to limit us. It is to expand our thinking and notice that, Okay, wow, God might work in this way and in other ways. And, you know, primarily he gives me visuals and, you know, pictures and all of that. But maybe there are times when God might choose to work in a different way, right, through my life. So we must be open. We must be open to any form of a process. Okay, so are you all with me? Any, any questions so far? Any inputs, experiences, anything you would like to share? Yes, Divya, please go ahead. Thank you, Pastor. Just had a question, actually. So just as you mentioned that in the first session regarding prophesying believer, then the grace gift of prophesying, the office of the Prophet. So all these are these applicable even even in the Old Testament times, even as we are discussing the Old Testament prophets. Can we say that, Oh, they, they operated as in the office of prophecy or something like that. I'm just trying to relate both. Excellent question, Divya. It just shows me that you understood what we were talking about. Well, the answer is no. We can't apply it in the Old Testament times. Because I mean, in the sense that generally what we notice is when people prophesied, it would be prophets. So God would speak through his prophets. Yes, there are occasional instances where, you know, we also read about the donkey speaking or we read about, you know, Saul when he was in the company of the prophets he prophesied, but the anointing on his life was a kingly anointing. Okay. But it was just an occasional thing. So normal believers prophesying and then some others moving in the prophetic ministry realm. We don't see that the Old Testament. We see that in the New Testament because we have the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, all of us. That was not possible before the redemptive work of Christ on the cross of Calvary. Okay. So I hope that answers your question. Yes. I just wanted to have a follow up question also. So when we talk about the major prophets or the minor prophets, can we say that they are officially prophets just to put it in those terms? Like they operated as in the office of prophecy. Is it right to say that? Yes, yes, Divya. They were all prophets. See, major and minor prophet classification has to do more with the length, the importance, the impact of their messages. So it doesn't grade them within the section of a prophet. There's only one category we know of which is prophet. They were all prophets. Okay. Okay. So there's no classification in the Old Testament times. Prophet is prophet. That's all. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Sure. Yeah. Thanks, Divya. Good. Very relevant question. So it's nice. Now we are getting a sense of how God spoke and God, his word, he always desired to speak. You see how he talked about Abraham and he said, how can I do something without revealing it to Abraham? Like God is God. He likes to share what's on his heart. He's not a God who will do things without communicating it to his people. And that's how the work of God is. Now, as we move on, I'm on page 16 in our notes. We see that in the Old Testament, we also have some references that tell us that God loved to share his word. So Amos 3 was a seven in eight. It says, surely the Lord God does nothing unless he reveals his secret to his servants, the prophets. So that's how he worked. And we see that in the Old Testament. And what a privilege. In today's times, we in the New Covenant, all of us can hear from God. All of us can flow in the basic gift of prophecy. So we can hear from God and God is willing. God is wanting. God is deciding to reveal his secrets. But of course, we must pursue it as well. And God wants us to have that sort of an intimate relationship with him for us to know more and more from God. And when God speaks, it makes a difference. So in the same passage, Amos 3 was seven, was eight less, a lion has roared, who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken, who can but prophesies. So basically, what Amos is saying is, whenever God spoke to the prophets, they knew. The lion, when it roars in the jungle, everyone knows, you know, it brings fear in our hearts. So when God speaks, it's distinct. We are aware. Oh, wow. This is what he's wanting to say. We are aware. Okay. So that's how he communicates that reading further. Jeremiah talks about his experience of hearing the voice of God. And he says something like, his word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones. This is Jeremiah 20 verse nine, where he says that sometimes the experience which prophets of old had had is, you know, they have a word in their bones. It's like you are convinced. You feel a sense of compulsion to share the word because it's in your bones that it's burning the word of God. And you can't keep quiet, but go ahead and release that word. So that's the kind of experience these prophets had been. God was a speaking God. He wanted to reveal his heart to them. Then that when God speaks, we can't contain it. We know that he has spoken. And, you know, his word is bubbling, written. You know, that's what the prophets are saying. When God spoke for them, it was like, it was like burning in his bones. He had to take the message out and deliver it. Otherwise, you know, he would not be comfortable or at peace. So those were the kinds of experiences that they had. Now, let's continue to talk about the prophetic process. We said, oh, visualization. So what does God do? What does he reveal when he gives us these images? We have certain scriptures that give us insight. So Hosea chapter 12 and verse 10, Hosea said, I have also spoken the prophets and have multiplied visions. I have given symbols through the witness of the prophets. So notice God is speaking to the prophets by multiplying visions. But there is an important word to take notice of. What is that word? I have given symbols through the witness of the prophets. So we'll talk more. We'll talk more about these symbols that God gave the prophets. So now we understood that God gave a word and it was forceful, you know, within the beam of the prophets and they had to release it. Now, in what manner did he give this word? In visualization process, God is saying visions, symbols. Okay, let's look at another passage. He numbers chapter 12 versus five through eight. Then the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam and they both went forward. Then he said, here now my words, if there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a how? Vision. I speak to him in a dream, not so with my servant, Moses. He is faithful in all my house. I speak to him face to face, even plainly and not in dark sayings. And he sees the form of the Lord. Why then? Were you not afraid to speak against my servant, Moses? This is actually a correct word. We're just coming to Aaron and Miriam. But in what God is saying, there are some clues about how he speaks to the prophets. So how does he speak to the prophets? Earlier, what did we see in Hosea 1210? We said, I have multiplied visions and I have given symbols. Okay, so we got that. Now here, God is telling, if there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision. I speak to him in a dream. Okay, and later on, one more thing we can pick up is dark sayings, dark sayings. And of course, he points out there that Moses had this beautiful experience of speaking to God face to face. Now, do we all desire to speak to God face to face? Yes, we do want that. And does God speak that way? Yes, God can speak that way to his people. But here's the common way. Okay, we said our God is a speaking God. So there is a common way in which he speaks generally. Not to say that he'll not speak face to face. We can always desire that. But we must become familiar with the general way in which God speaks. So here he said, visions, dreams, dark sayings. So we saw two terms, visions, dreams we kind of understand and we will talk more about it later as well. But there are two new words that we have come across. One is symbols, another is dark sayings. So what is this? God is not giving the prophets a very direct message. Instead, he is giving them symbols, dark sayings. It simply tells us that once we receive this, there has to be an effort to interpret what we have seen. What are these symbols? They could be parables. Parables are, you know, these are like regular life stories and events that we are familiar with. We could be viewing that but there can be a message in it. So the prophets could have actually received a parable or, you know, they could have received in English language, we say similitudes. It's similar. Like you see a line in your image of a line and then you have to interpret. What does it mean? Because in scripture, if you see, we have the line of Judah, but you also have Satan is like a roaring lion. So the prophet has to now interpret. What does God mean? Because I am seeing symbols. I am seeing dark sayings. It has to be correctly interpreted, you know, as per the Bible and as per the leading of the Holy Spirit. So symbols and dark sayings are all these things which are not a clear cut message. But, you know, there is message inside what we are actually seeing. So it can be a comparison. It can be a riddle. It can be a drama. You know how sometimes you, I always think in these cartoons, it's so weird, isn't it? That let's say a cartoon character is just running and he feels he has to enter his house. He'll suddenly draw a door and the door will open and, you know, he'll go into another space. Like, how does that happen? But in our dreams and visions, sometimes it's like that. And you're like, what is this? But as we think with God, we will be able to get the message of what God is saying. You know, God speaks in parables, riddles, similitudes, comparisons. And from there, you know, we must get the message. Oh, I saw a person. I saw a creature. What does, who does this person portray? What does this creature portray? You know, so that's the way in which God is actually communicating. And that's the way communicated when to the prophets. So all these symbols, and even when we say there are visions and dreams, there can be symbols in the visions and dreams. And so these pictures and this form of communication needed to then be interpreted. Okay, so we will learn more about interpretation and personal prophecy and all of that later on. So now, just going along this prophetic process, there is an example of a prophet called as Balaam in the Word of God. We will look at his example. Now definitely, he was not a prophet to, basically, we say he was a prophet for profit, okay, to make money. He was ready to prophesy against God's people. So that is a greedy prophet we have here. However, when we read about his prophetic process and his prophetic experience, we can gain a lot about the way God spoke to him. So in numbers 24, verses 15 and 16, if anybody has that open in front of you, could you kindly read it? Numbers 24, verses 15 and 16, please. Numbers chapter 24, verses 15 and 16. Then he uttered his oracle, the oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of one whose eye sees clearly, the oracle of one who hears the Word of God, who has knowledge from the most high, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who falls prostrate and whose eyes are opened. Great. So just in these two verses, so many different methods of God's communication have been described. So he took up his oracle and said, the utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, the utterance of the man notice whose eyes were opened, the visualization process, the utterance of him who hears the words of God, hearing the listening process and has the knowledge of the most high, meaning information, reception of information. Okay. Now who sees the vision of the Almighty, okay, vision going further, who falls down, who falls down. So there is also an experience of physically laying prostrate in front of God when the message came to Balaam, prostrate with eyes wide open. So his physical eyes were open or we could also say his spiritual eyes were open. So these are all things for us to think about and understand how did Balaam pick up the message of God, what was happening, how was he hearing from God? So let's go with the first point there, the utterance of the man whose eyes are open or utterance is nothing but the words, the message of the man whose eyes were open. So eyes were open. What does this mean? Is it necessarily physicalized? See, primarily this has to do with our spiritual eyes. So the spirit man has senses, we will talk about this as well. So comparable to our human vision, our spirit has vision okay and our spirit can see. So it's telling us that Balaam was able to look into the spirit realm. He was able to see through his spirit man. So his eyes were open are referring to what? Referring to the spirit eyes being open and that's how he was receiving the message of God. Now a parallel would be the time when Elisha, Elisha's servant, you remember? He sends out his servant in 2nd Kings chapter 6 and he has to stand to see and the servant sees, suddenly his human eyes can see armies of God protecting and surrounding and being there for Elisha and the servant and he realizes, oh wow, we are not minority. But in this case, his human eyes, Elisha prayed and said, God open his eyes. So the spiritual eyes were opened and he was able to see through his human eyes the armies that were standing around. So you see, God is not limited. We can gaze into the spirit realm through our spiritual eyes. Now when we look into the spirit realm through our spiritual eyes, our natural eyes may or may not be able to pick up what is going on. So some people say open-eyed visions, shut-eyed visions, so many descriptions and technicalities are there. But let's not worry about all that. When God, there are many instances that we see in scripture when you say Stephen, he saw before he was dying, he looked into heaven. You can ask, how did you look into heaven? The spirit man can see. So the year that King Uzziah died, I saw. Isaiah writes about it. So we can see our spirit man has the capacity to view and pick up imagery. So even Balaam talks about it and he says the utterance of the man whose eyes were opened, eyes open meaning spiritualized. Primarily, second thing, you notice utterance of the man who heard, heard what. So here's what we see in scripture that God speaks. If you recall, Samuel is a classic example, isn't it? So he was in Eli's temple and what happened? He was hearing his name, Samuel, Samuel. He didn't know what to do with it. He did not even know how to recognize the word of God. But a more experienced priest, Eli, taught Samuel, Samuel, you're hearing the voice of God. So you respond. The next time you hear, say, here I am. So somebody had to teach him to be sensitive to the voice of the Lord and also to respond to it. And in this case, it was amazing. We noticed that Samuel was hearing. Eli was not hearing. So sometimes when we hear the voice of God, it generally tends to be to that particular audience. And in this case, Samuel was the audience that God was speaking to. Now does God speak audibly all the time? In our usual experience, we say, we get the words of God, but minus the sound. So we are not saying that you can't hear like audio with sound, the voice. We can, but normally we might pick up a word in our spirit and we'll talk about it. So normal processes, we can hear from God. But when we say I heard the scripture, basically we got that scripture minus the sound. That's how it works. So it's possible to hear the voice of God again. How can we pick it up? The inner man, the spirit man has senses. You can see and it can hear. So the next is receive the knowledge of the Lord. So how do we understand this? Receiving the knowledge of the Lord. See, in our, because we are all computer generation, it's like download. You know, sometimes you have an attached file, you click download. You can even download an entire PDF, a whole book, a whole book comes into your spirit and you have so much in fiction. God just, what, what did he do? He downloaded it. So receiving the knowledge of God is like that. We don't understand how, but it is delivered into our spirit and then, you know, it can well up, it can bubble up and we can keep releasing the word of God. So it can happen in that way. He saw the vision of the Almighty. Vision is nothing but, you know, we've been talking about seeing a picture, like, you know, what do you see? I see a basket of summer fruit and all, but it can also be like a movie, like a motion picture, where that's a vision, where we're seeing, oh, this happened and that happened and something else. So we can even see an entire story unfold. Okay, so that is a vision. Now again, about vision, you could say a shut-eye vision, open-eye vision, meaning normalize, humanize. So all that is there. Then last one, he fell down with eyes wide open. That's nothing but something like an experience of a trance. You remember Peter? Peter also, right? He, he was in trance when he had that vision of the tent come down and all the animals, my God said, hey, come on, you can go, you can eat them. So these were the experiences which Balam had to receive the word of the Lord. So anyway, I'm just going to close this morning. I think we've, we are building, you know, little by little we are building and it'll help us flow in the prophetic. So the beautiful thing is that we have a God who speaks. He speaks in creative ways. Okay. He wants to, to refresh our lives. And, you know, his word is to build us up. He will not send us a word to break us down, but he wants to send us a word to build us up, to comfort us, to encourage us. And as God's people, you know, we must heal to what the Lord is doing. He's a God who knows the deep and secret things the book of Daniel says. And he knows what is in the darkness and light dwells within Daniel 2.22. And he's a God, as Daniel said, who reveals secrets, Daniel 2.28. And so we have this beautiful privilege of discovering the message of God, hearing what God wants to say. So I'm excited. I hope you all are excited and let's continue to get better and better at hearing God's voice. So let's just quickly close now. At the end of the class, would somebody please be able to lead and pray? Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we come to you under the name of Jesus. We thank you for this beautiful day. We thank you for everything that we learned today, God. God, we thank you that you're a God who speaks. You are the living God. And you have given us this privilege to listen to each and every moment of this life. As you made us your children, you gave us that privilege to hear from you, Lord. We are so thankful. God, help us to open our spiritual eyes and ears and help us to get more deeper into the relationship that we can hear from you so that we'll have a clear guidance so that we can be a blessing to others as we learn. Help us to flow much more in this prophecy, Lord. Be with us and guide us in Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Jeffrey. Thank you, everyone. Have a blessed day as you continue on with your classes. See you all next week. Bye for now.